Blog: Hacktoberfest 2020 (#14695)

Co-authored-by: Paulus Schoutsen <balloob@gmail.com>

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+title: "Hacktoberfest 2020"
+description: "It is October and Hacktoberfest started! Home Assistant participates again this year, and you?"
+date: 2020-10-01 00:00:00
+date_formatted: "October 1, 2020"
+author: Franck Nijhof
+author_twitter: frenck
+categories: Community
+og_image: /images/blog/2020-10-01-hacktoberfest-2020/social.png
+---
+
+<img src='/images/blog/2020-10-01-hacktoberfest-2020/social.png' class='no-shadow'>
+
+October has started, which means: [Hacktoberfest][hacktoberfest]!
+
+Hacktoberfest is a worldwide, month-long celebration of open source. An event
+open to everyone. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code,
+documenter, designer, you can help drive the growth of open source projects,
+like Home Assistant.
+
+By participating in Hacktoberfest, and by contributing four GitHub pull
+requests, you will earn either a free t-shirt or, new this year, have a
+tree planted. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the
+Hacktoberfest challenge.
+
+Just like all other years, Home Assistant participates in Hacktoberfest.
+
+## What to work on?
+
+So, you’ve decided to earn yourself that free Hacktoberfest t-shirt? Great!
+We've collected a bunch of tasks/suggestions/bugs that we'd love to get
+some help on. You can find those by filtering/searching for issues with
+the [`hacktoberfest` label][all].
+
+- **[Core Hacktoberfest issues][core]**
+  
+  For example, help us migrate
+  [unittest tests to pytest style test][testcase] functions or lend a hand with
+  using as many references as possible
+  in the [configuration flow translations][translations].
+
+- **[Frontend Hacktoberfest issues][frontend]**
+  
+  We could use some help with [moving all `paper-dialogs` to `ha-dialogs`][paper].
+
+- **[Documentation Hacktoberfest issues][docs]**
+
+  [Find and fix broken links][links] on our website or help to complete the
+  addition of the [right IoT Class to every integration][class].
+
+Or view all our Hacktoberfest issues across [all Home Assistant projects][all].
+
+Additionally, we recently held the [month of "What the heck?!"][wth-blog]. During
+this month a lot of suggestions and annoyances got reported by our community.
+While, those topic may not be approved as a change yet, it might be a great
+source of inspiration to contribute something the community wants. Check out
+the [WTH community forum posts][wth].
+
+## But, I'm not a developer?!
+
+If you are not a developer, new to git, GitHub or open source in general,
+documentation can be a great way to get started. A relatively easy way to
+contribute, is by reviewing the documentation of integrations you use or are
+familiar with, checking if everything is still up to date and if free of
+spelling/grammar mistakes.
+
+Every single documentation page on our website has a "Edit this page on GitHub",
+on the top right corner. Using that link, you can change the text on that page
+and provide a suggestion for improvement.
+
+On our Community forum, there is a good, step-by-step, guide on how this works:
+[Editing the Documentation and Creating a Pull Request on GitHub][docs-how-to].
+
+So, what are you waiting for? Sign-up on the [Hacktoberfest][hacktoberfest]
+website and start hacking! If you have any questions, please, drop by on our
+[Discord chat server](/join-chat). We have dedicated developer channels and
+are happy to assist you.
+
+Happy Hacktoberfest 🎉
+
+[all]: https://github.com/search?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Ahacktoberfest+org%3Ahome-assistant
+[brands]: https://github.com/home-assistant/brands/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Ahacktoberfest
+[class]: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/14661
+[core]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Ahacktoberfest
+[docs-how-to]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/editing-the-documentation-and-creating-a-pull-request-on-github/9573
+[docs]: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Ahacktoberfest
+[frontend]: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Ahacktoberfest
+[hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
+[links]: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/14663
+[paper]: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/6138
+[testcase]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Aunittest.TestCase
+[translations]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/40578
+[wth-blog]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/08/18/the-month-of-what-the-heck/
+[wth]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52/l/latest?order=votes